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| Do you hear [p,t,k] or [b,d,g]? The difficulties on differentiating European Portuguese minimal pairs by Cantonese learners of Portuguese as L2, | |
| Nunes, A. M. B.; Martins, CUSTÓDIO | |
| 2011-10-01 | |
| Source Publication | International Conference on Languages and Linguistics
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| Publication Place | Evora |
| Publisher | University of Evora |
| Abstract | Knowing the lack of studies focusing on the acquisition of European Portuguese as a Second Language by Chinese and Cantonese speakers especially in what concerns on minimal pairs, considering that both are typologically different languages, pressed us to identify the principal perception difficulties by Chinese learners of Portuguese as L2, since these difficulties may have an impact in terms of production and comprehension. It is supported by literature that activities such talking and listening are close. This relation between speech production and speech perception is important in the private and public domain in which ‘articulatory mechanisms support talking, and perceptual mechanisms support listening to speech’, (Fowler, Carol A., pp. 633). Second language acquisition is a complex process that involves, among other things, the simultaneous acquisition of a new sound system and lexicon. The study of phonological contexts in the process of SLA provides an insight into the perception and production mechanisms. Speech perception involves decoding the acoustic signal to recover the phonetic message (Liberman at al. 1967; Liberman and Strange 1985). A group of Cantonese students (graduation on Portuguese studies) were asked to participate on two perception tests (one where they had to choose between two minimal pairs and other where they had to write the word they were listening). This first approach was mainly focused on the Portuguese stops in initial context. In general we may say that results showed that the pairs [t], [d]; [p], [b] and [k], [g], are difficult to identify by the majority of the students. In European Portuguese the pairs that we present just differ on the voiced/unvoiced parameter and not that much on the articulation (gesture). We have noticed that students have the same discrimination problems on writing or talking. For these speakers perception, comprehension and even production are strictly related. |
| Keyword | Foreign language acquisition Speech perception |
| Language | 英語English |
| The Source to Article | PB_Publication |
| PUB ID | 9133 |
| Document Type | Conference paper |
| Collection | DEPARTMENT OF PORTUGUESE |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Nunes, A. M. B.,Martins, CUSTÓDIO. Do you hear [p,t,k] or [b,d,g]? The difficulties on differentiating European Portuguese minimal pairs by Cantonese learners of Portuguese as L2,[C], Evora:University of Evora, 2011. |
| APA | Nunes, A. M. B.., & Martins, CUSTÓDIO (2011). Do you hear [p,t,k] or [b,d,g]? The difficulties on differentiating European Portuguese minimal pairs by Cantonese learners of Portuguese as L2,. International Conference on Languages and Linguistics. |
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